It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
-Tom Stoppard
Quotations
Democracy
Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
-Robert Byrne
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-Oscar Wilde
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
-Irving Kristol
Democracy means not I am as good as you are, but you are as good as I am.
-Theodore Parker
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
-James Bovard
"Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty"
What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.
-Ambrose Bierce
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
-Reinhold Niebuhr
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
-Winston S. Churchill
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
-Jorge Luis Borges
